The Epoch of Renaissance as Heir, Representative and Forerunner of European Humanism – Philosophic, Cultural, Social and Political Aspects: readings
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* Recommended for all participants of the seminar
I. Renaissance as heir of occidental humanism
The heritage of Greek and Roman humanism:
- Freedman, Luba: The revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art,
Cambridge 2003.
- Kraye, Jill: Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy, Aldershot 2002.
- Long, Anthony A.: From Epicurus to Epictetus. Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, Oxford 2006.
** Sedley, David N.: The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy,
Cambridge 2003.
** Trapp, Michael B.: Philosophy in the Roman Empire. Ethics, Politics and Society,
Aldershot 2007.
- Trapp, Joseph B.: Essays on the Renaissance and the Classical Tradition,
Aldershot 1990.
- Visher, Glenn S.: Human Values from the Greeks to Modern Times. A continuing Circle, Commack 1997.
The influence of Christian humanism:
** Francis, Richard P.: Christian Humanism. International Perspectives,
New York 1995.
** McCarthy, Timothy: Christianity and Humanism. From their Biblical Foundations into the Third Millennium, Chicago 1996.
* Thompson, Bard: Humanists and Reformers. A History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Grand Rapids 1996.
The Carolingian and the Ottonian Renaissance as medieval precursors of the Age of Renaissance:
* Bullough, Donald A.: Carolingian Renewal. Sources and Heritage, Manchester 1991.
- McKitterick, Rosamond: Carolingian Culture. Emulation and Innovation,
Cambridge 1994.
** Schutz, Herbert: The Carolingians in Central Europe, their History, Arts,
and Architecture. A Cultural History of Central Europe, 750 – 900, Leiden 2004.
- Tinkler, Michael Crawford: Carolingian Renovatio. Words, Images, and Origins, Atlanta 1997.
* Tucker, George Hugo: Forms of the "Medieval" in the "Renaissance".
A multidisciplinary Exploration of a Cultural Continuum, Charlottesville 2000.
II. The Renaissance as representative of occidental humanism
The economic, social and political background:
- Boccaccio: The Decameron, translated by G.H. McWilliam, London 2003.
** Hale, John R.: Renaissance in Europe, 2. ed., London 2001.
** Hale, John R.: The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, New York 1994.
** Martin, John Jeffries: The Renaissance World, New York 2007.
- Franklin, Margaret: Boccaccio's Heroines. Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society,
Aldershot 2006.
- Field, Judith Veronica: Renaissance and Revolution. Humanists, Scholars,
Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge 1993.
- Nauert, Charles Garfield: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe, 2. ed.,
Cambridge 2006.
- Ruggiero, Guido: A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, Oxford 2002.
- Saliba, George: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance,
Cambridge 2007.
The philosophical and theological background:
- Black, Robert: Renaissance Thought. A reader, London 2001.
- Gersh, Stephen: Medieval and Renaissance Humanism. Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform, Boston 2003.
- Grendler, Paul F.: Renaissance Education between Religion and Politics,
Aldershot 2006.
** Hankins, James: The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy,
Cambridge 2007.
- Kraye, Jill: Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, London 2000.
- Parkinson, George H. R.: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism,
London 1993.
- Petrosyan, M.: Humanism. Its Philosophical, Ethical, and Sociological Aspects,
Moscow 1972.
- Trinkaus, Charles Edward: Renaissance Transformations of Late Medieval Thought,
Aldershot 1999.
The discovery of individuality (Petrarca, Pico della Mirandola, Boccaccio, Lodovico Cornaro, Michel de Montaigne, Baldessare Castiglione):
** Petrarch: The Life of Solitude, translated by Jacob Zeitlin, Westport 1978.
- Enenkel, Karl A. E.: Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance, Leiden 2006.
* Foster, Kenelm: Petrarch. Poet and Humanist, Edinburgh 1984.
- Fubini, Riccardo: Humanism and Secularization. From Petrarch to Valla,
Durham 2003.
** Pico della Mirandola: The very Elegant Speech on the Dignity of Man,
translated by Charles Glenn Wallace, Whitefish 2004.
- Dougherty, M. V.: Pico della Mirandola. New Essays, Cambridge 2008.
** Boccaccio: The Decameron, translated by G.H. McWilliam, London 2003.
- Serafini-Sauli, Judith P.: Giovanni Boccaccio, Boston 1982.
- Cornaro, Luigi: Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life, London 1776.
** Montaigne, Michel de: Essays. Edited by Percival Chubb, New York 2004.
** Langer, Ullrich: The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne, Cambridge 2005.
- Levine, Alan: Sensual Philosophy. Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne's Politics of the Self, Lanham 2001.
** Castiglione, Baldessare: The Book of the Courtier, translated by Thomas Hoby, Whitefish 2007.
- Burke, Peter: The Fortunes of the Courtier. The European Reception of Castiglione's
Cortegiano, Cambridge 1995.
* Hanning, Robert H.: Castiglione. The Ideal and the Real in Renaissance Culture,
New Haven 1983.
The call for (religious) tolerance (Albericus Gentilis, Jean Bodin) as presupposition for the realization of all humanistic values:
** Gentili, Albericus: De Iure Belli Libri Tres, translated by John Rolfe, Oxford 1933.
- Panizza, Diego: Alberico Gentili. Politica e religione nell'età delle guerre di religione,
Milano 2002.
** Six Books of the Commonwealth, translated by M.J. Tooley, Oxford 1955.
* Franklin, Julian H.: Jean Bodin, Aldershot 2006.
- Kuntz, M.: Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, Princeton 1975.
- Rose, Paul Laurence: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion and Politics,
Genève 1980.
The call for internal peace as presupposition for the realization of all humanistic values:
- Blumberg, Herbert H./Hare, A. Paul/Costin, Anna: Peace Psychology.
A Comprehensive Introduction, Cambridge 2006
- Boersema, David: Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace,
Amsterdam 2006.
- Christie, Daniel J.: Peace, Conflict and Violence. Peace Psychology for the
Twenty-First Century, New Jersey 2001.
- Fry, Douglas P.: The Human Potential for Peace. An Anthropological Challenge to
Assumptions about War and Violence, New York 2005.
- Howell, Signe: Societies at Peace. Anthropological Perspectives, London 1989.
The fight against tyranny and the call for some fundamental rights, to be guaranteed by the concept of mixed government (Donato Giannotti, Paolo Paruta, Gasparo Contarini, James Harrington, John Locke):
** Giannotti, Donato: Della republica fiorentina, edited by Giovanni Silvano,
Genève 1990.
- Starn, R. (ed.): Donato Giannotti and His Epistolae, 1968.
- Paruta, Paolo: Della perfezione della vita politica, Venice 1579.
- Contarini, Gasparo: Tractatus seu Epistola de iustificatione.
- Gleason, Elisabeth G.: Gasparo Contarini. Venice, Rome, and Reform,
Berkeley 1993.
** Harrington, James: The Commonwealth of Oceana
* Cotton, James: James Harrington's Political Thought and its Context,
New York 1991.
* Dickinson, W. C.: James Harrington's Republic, Washington, DC 1983.
** Locke, John: Two Treatises of Government, edited by Peter Lasslett, 2. vol.,
Cambridge 1967
** Locke, John: A Letter Concerning Toleration, edited by Mario Montuori,
Den Haag 1963
** Essays on the Law of Nature, edited by Wolfgang von Leyden, Oxford 1954.
- Brooks, Thom: Locke and Law, Aldershot 2007.
- Coc, Richard H.: Locke on War and Peace, Oxford 1960.
- Cranston, Maurice C.: Locke on Politics, Religion, and Education, New York 1965.
- Franklin, Julian H.: John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignity, Cambridge 1979.
- Kendall, Willmore: John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority Rule, reprint,
Urbana 1965.
- MacPherson, Crawford B.: The Political Theory of Possesssive Individualism. Hobbes to Locke, Oxford 1962.
- Syse, Henrik: Natural Law, Religion, and Rights. An Exploration of the Relationship between Natural Law and Natural Rights, with special Emphasis on the Teachings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, South Bend 2007.
The strife for external peace or at least the taming of wars by transforming the concept of natural law into a system of international law (Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Samuel Pufendorf):
** Vitoria, Francisco de: Political Writings, edited by A. Pagden/J. Lawrence,
Cambridge 1991.
Scott, J.B.: The Spanish Origin of International Law. Francisco de Vitoria and his Law of Nations, Oxford 1934
** Grotius, Hugo: On the Law of War and Peace, translated by Archibald Colin Campbell, New York 1979.
* Bull, Hedley: Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Oxford 1990.
- Stumpf, Christoph A.: The Grotian Theology of International Law. Hugo Grotius and the Moral Foundations of International Relations, Berlin 2006.
** Pufendorf, Samuel: De jure naturae et gentium libri octo, edited by
Walter Simons, Oxford.
** Pufendorf, Samuel: On the duty of man and citizen according to natural law, edited by James Tully, Cambridge 1991.
* Carr, C.L.: The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf, Oxford 1994.
- Saastamoinen, Kari: The Morality of the Fallen Man. Samuel Pufendorf on Natural Law, Helsinki 1995.
- Seidler, Michael: Samuel Pufendorf's „On the Natural State of Men“. The 1678 Latin Edition and English Translation, Lewiston 1990.
III. The Renaissance as forerunner of occidental humanism
- Höfele, Andreas: Renaissance Go-Betweens. Cultural Exchange in Early Modern
Europe, Berlin 2005.
- Ferguson, Wallace Klippert: The Renaissance in Historical Thought. Five Centuries of Interpretation, Toronto 2006.
- Haney, William S.: Humanism and the Humanities in the Twenty-First Century,
Lewisburg 2001.
- Mazzocco, Angelo: Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism, Leiden 2006.
- Nauert, Charles Garfield: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe, 2. ed.,
Cambridge 2006.
- Puledda, Salvatore: On Being Human. Interpretations of Humanism from the Renaissance to the Present, San Diego 1997.
- Shaffer, Elinor S.: Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge 2001.
- Schiffman, Zachary S.: Humanism and the Renaissance, Boston 2002.
- Visher, Glenn S.: Human Values from the Greeks to Modern Times. A Continuing Circle, Commack 1997.
* Recommended for all participants of the seminar
I. Renaissance as heir of occidental humanism The heritage of Greek and Roman humanism:
- Freedman, Luba: The revival of the Olympian Gods in Renaissance Art,
Cambridge 2003.
- Kraye, Jill: Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy, Aldershot 2002.
- Long, Anthony A.: From Epicurus to Epictetus. Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, Oxford 2006.
** Sedley, David N.: The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy,
Cambridge 2003.
** Trapp, Michael B.: Philosophy in the Roman Empire. Ethics, Politics and Society,
Aldershot 2007.
- Trapp, Joseph B.: Essays on the Renaissance and the Classical Tradition,
Aldershot 1990.
- Visher, Glenn S.: Human Values from the Greeks to Modern Times. A continuing Circle, Commack 1997.
The influence of Christian humanism:
** Francis, Richard P.: Christian Humanism. International Perspectives,
New York 1995.
** McCarthy, Timothy: Christianity and Humanism. From their Biblical Foundations into the Third Millennium, Chicago 1996.
* Thompson, Bard: Humanists and Reformers. A History of the Renaissance and Reformation, Grand Rapids 1996.
The Carolingian and the Ottonian Renaissance as medieval precursors of the Age of Renaissance:
* Bullough, Donald A.: Carolingian Renewal. Sources and Heritage, Manchester 1991.
- McKitterick, Rosamond: Carolingian Culture. Emulation and Innovation,
Cambridge 1994.
** Schutz, Herbert: The Carolingians in Central Europe, their History, Arts,
and Architecture. A Cultural History of Central Europe, 750 – 900, Leiden 2004.
- Tinkler, Michael Crawford: Carolingian Renovatio. Words, Images, and Origins, Atlanta 1997.
* Tucker, George Hugo: Forms of the "Medieval" in the "Renaissance".
A multidisciplinary Exploration of a Cultural Continuum, Charlottesville 2000.
II. The Renaissance as representative of occidental humanism The economic, social and political background:
- Boccaccio: The Decameron, translated by G.H. McWilliam, London 2003.
** Hale, John R.: Renaissance in Europe, 2. ed., London 2001.
** Hale, John R.: The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, New York 1994.
** Martin, John Jeffries: The Renaissance World, New York 2007.
- Franklin, Margaret: Boccaccio's Heroines. Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society,
Aldershot 2006.
- Field, Judith Veronica: Renaissance and Revolution. Humanists, Scholars,
Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge 1993.
- Nauert, Charles Garfield: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe, 2. ed.,
Cambridge 2006.
- Ruggiero, Guido: A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, Oxford 2002.
- Saliba, George: Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance,
Cambridge 2007.
The philosophical and theological background:
- Black, Robert: Renaissance Thought. A reader, London 2001.
- Gersh, Stephen: Medieval and Renaissance Humanism. Rhetoric, Representation, and Reform, Boston 2003.
- Grendler, Paul F.: Renaissance Education between Religion and Politics,
Aldershot 2006.
** Hankins, James: The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy,
Cambridge 2007.
- Kraye, Jill: Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, London 2000.
- Parkinson, George H. R.: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism,
London 1993.
- Petrosyan, M.: Humanism. Its Philosophical, Ethical, and Sociological Aspects,
Moscow 1972.
- Trinkaus, Charles Edward: Renaissance Transformations of Late Medieval Thought,
Aldershot 1999.
The discovery of individuality (Petrarca, Pico della Mirandola, Boccaccio, Lodovico Cornaro, Michel de Montaigne, Baldessare Castiglione):
** Petrarch: The Life of Solitude, translated by Jacob Zeitlin, Westport 1978.
- Enenkel, Karl A. E.: Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance, Leiden 2006.
* Foster, Kenelm: Petrarch. Poet and Humanist, Edinburgh 1984.
- Fubini, Riccardo: Humanism and Secularization. From Petrarch to Valla,
Durham 2003.
** Pico della Mirandola: The very Elegant Speech on the Dignity of Man,
translated by Charles Glenn Wallace, Whitefish 2004.
- Dougherty, M. V.: Pico della Mirandola. New Essays, Cambridge 2008.
** Boccaccio: The Decameron, translated by G.H. McWilliam, London 2003.
- Serafini-Sauli, Judith P.: Giovanni Boccaccio, Boston 1982.
- Cornaro, Luigi: Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life, London 1776.
** Montaigne, Michel de: Essays. Edited by Percival Chubb, New York 2004.
** Langer, Ullrich: The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne, Cambridge 2005.
- Levine, Alan: Sensual Philosophy. Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne's Politics of the Self, Lanham 2001.
** Castiglione, Baldessare: The Book of the Courtier, translated by Thomas Hoby, Whitefish 2007.
- Burke, Peter: The Fortunes of the Courtier. The European Reception of Castiglione's
Cortegiano, Cambridge 1995.
* Hanning, Robert H.: Castiglione. The Ideal and the Real in Renaissance Culture,
New Haven 1983.
The call for (religious) tolerance (Albericus Gentilis, Jean Bodin) as presupposition for the realization of all humanistic values:
** Gentili, Albericus: De Iure Belli Libri Tres, translated by John Rolfe, Oxford 1933.
- Panizza, Diego: Alberico Gentili. Politica e religione nell'età delle guerre di religione,
Milano 2002.
** Six Books of the Commonwealth, translated by M.J. Tooley, Oxford 1955.
* Franklin, Julian H.: Jean Bodin, Aldershot 2006.
- Kuntz, M.: Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, Princeton 1975.
- Rose, Paul Laurence: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Religion and Politics,
Genève 1980.
The call for internal peace as presupposition for the realization of all humanistic values:
- Blumberg, Herbert H./Hare, A. Paul/Costin, Anna: Peace Psychology.
A Comprehensive Introduction, Cambridge 2006
- Boersema, David: Spiritual and Political Dimensions of Nonviolence and Peace,
Amsterdam 2006.
- Christie, Daniel J.: Peace, Conflict and Violence. Peace Psychology for the
Twenty-First Century, New Jersey 2001.
- Fry, Douglas P.: The Human Potential for Peace. An Anthropological Challenge to
Assumptions about War and Violence, New York 2005.
- Howell, Signe: Societies at Peace. Anthropological Perspectives, London 1989.
The fight against tyranny and the call for some fundamental rights, to be guaranteed by the concept of mixed government (Donato Giannotti, Paolo Paruta, Gasparo Contarini, James Harrington, John Locke):
** Giannotti, Donato: Della republica fiorentina, edited by Giovanni Silvano,
Genève 1990.
- Starn, R. (ed.): Donato Giannotti and His Epistolae, 1968.
- Paruta, Paolo: Della perfezione della vita politica, Venice 1579.
- Contarini, Gasparo: Tractatus seu Epistola de iustificatione.
- Gleason, Elisabeth G.: Gasparo Contarini. Venice, Rome, and Reform,
Berkeley 1993.
** Harrington, James: The Commonwealth of Oceana
* Cotton, James: James Harrington's Political Thought and its Context,
New York 1991.
* Dickinson, W. C.: James Harrington's Republic, Washington, DC 1983.
** Locke, John: Two Treatises of Government, edited by Peter Lasslett, 2. vol.,
Cambridge 1967
** Locke, John: A Letter Concerning Toleration, edited by Mario Montuori,
Den Haag 1963
** Essays on the Law of Nature, edited by Wolfgang von Leyden, Oxford 1954.
- Brooks, Thom: Locke and Law, Aldershot 2007.
- Coc, Richard H.: Locke on War and Peace, Oxford 1960.
- Cranston, Maurice C.: Locke on Politics, Religion, and Education, New York 1965.
- Franklin, Julian H.: John Locke and the Theory of Sovereignity, Cambridge 1979.
- Kendall, Willmore: John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority Rule, reprint,
Urbana 1965.
- MacPherson, Crawford B.: The Political Theory of Possesssive Individualism. Hobbes to Locke, Oxford 1962.
- Syse, Henrik: Natural Law, Religion, and Rights. An Exploration of the Relationship between Natural Law and Natural Rights, with special Emphasis on the Teachings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, South Bend 2007.
The strife for external peace or at least the taming of wars by transforming the concept of natural law into a system of international law (Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius, Samuel Pufendorf):
** Vitoria, Francisco de: Political Writings, edited by A. Pagden/J. Lawrence,
Cambridge 1991.
Scott, J.B.: The Spanish Origin of International Law. Francisco de Vitoria and his Law of Nations, Oxford 1934
** Grotius, Hugo: On the Law of War and Peace, translated by Archibald Colin Campbell, New York 1979.
* Bull, Hedley: Hugo Grotius and International Relations, Oxford 1990.
- Stumpf, Christoph A.: The Grotian Theology of International Law. Hugo Grotius and the Moral Foundations of International Relations, Berlin 2006.
** Pufendorf, Samuel: De jure naturae et gentium libri octo, edited by
Walter Simons, Oxford.
** Pufendorf, Samuel: On the duty of man and citizen according to natural law, edited by James Tully, Cambridge 1991.
* Carr, C.L.: The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf, Oxford 1994.
- Saastamoinen, Kari: The Morality of the Fallen Man. Samuel Pufendorf on Natural Law, Helsinki 1995.
- Seidler, Michael: Samuel Pufendorf's „On the Natural State of Men“. The 1678 Latin Edition and English Translation, Lewiston 1990.
III. The Renaissance as forerunner of occidental humanism - Höfele, Andreas: Renaissance Go-Betweens. Cultural Exchange in Early Modern
Europe, Berlin 2005.
- Ferguson, Wallace Klippert: The Renaissance in Historical Thought. Five Centuries of Interpretation, Toronto 2006.
- Haney, William S.: Humanism and the Humanities in the Twenty-First Century,
Lewisburg 2001.
- Mazzocco, Angelo: Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism, Leiden 2006.
- Nauert, Charles Garfield: Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe, 2. ed.,
Cambridge 2006.
- Puledda, Salvatore: On Being Human. Interpretations of Humanism from the Renaissance to the Present, San Diego 1997.
- Shaffer, Elinor S.: Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge 2001.
- Schiffman, Zachary S.: Humanism and the Renaissance, Boston 2002.
- Visher, Glenn S.: Human Values from the Greeks to Modern Times. A Continuing Circle, Commack 1997.
